2003/04 Trainees:
Lee
Bisset
Cora Burggraaf
Amy Freston
Lorina Gore
Kate Royal
Lise
Christensen
Robert
Murray
Andrew Sritheran
Paul
Carey Jones
James McOran-Campbell
Vassilis
Kostopoulos
Helen
Collyer
Oliver Gooch
Michael White |
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Amy
Freston Soprano
Born in London,
Amy trained as a classical dancer before going to the RNCM where she studied
with Sandra Dugdale. She is currently at the National Opera Studio (2003/4)
sponsored by Glyndebourne and was winner of the prestigious Joahninha
Trust Award in 2003.
Recent
engagements include Bridesmaid/Le Nozze di Figaro (Glyndebourne Festival
Opera); the title role in Acis and Galatea (New Kent Opera); Suor Genoveva/Suor
Angelica (Opera Holland Park); soprano soloist The Golden Ass (Globe Theatre).
Recent
concert performances include Messiah (Manchester Camerata & Sheffield
Bach Choir); Mozart’s C minor mass (Pershore Abbey); Bach’s
Cantatas Nos 202, 84 and 199 and a Harrison Birtwistle song cycle (Plush
Festival 2002 & 2003 broadcast on Radio 3); Carmina Burana (CBSO at
the Birmingham Symphony Hall); Handel’s Samson (Manchester Camerata).
Future engagements include soprano soloist in a new music theatre piece,
‘The passion of IO’, by Sir Harrison Birtwistle (Aldeburgh
and Almeida Contemporary Music Festivals); Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro
(GTO 2005); Il re pastore (New Kent Opera); Handel’s Dixit Dominus
and Vivaldi’s cantata Nulla in mundo pax sincera (Chapel House Choir,
York Minster).
Amy
is generously supported by the Countess of Munster Music Trust and the
Peter Moores Foundation.
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